Readit Newssuperpope99 commented on The product of the railways is the timetable springbett.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/NaOH
That graphic from the Swiss Railways is absolutely wonderful
https://sma-partner.com/storage/app/media/Dokumente/Netzgraf...
huh I find this totally incomprehensible. Is this easier to read if you spend a lot of time looking at wiring diagrams?
superpope99 commented on Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot figure.ai/news/introducin... · Posted by u/lairv
I feel like we're entering the era of general and inefficient solutions to problems.
Like LLMs being used to pick values out of JSON objects when jq would do the job 1000x more efficiently.
This is what this whole field feels like right now. Let's spend lots of time and energy to create a humanoid robot to do the things humans already decided humans were inefficient at and solved with specialised tools.
Like people saying "oh it can wash my dishes for me". Well, I haven't washed dishes in years, there's a thing called a dishwasher which does one thing and does it well.
"Oh it can do the vacuuming". We have robot vacuums which already do that.
have you ever googled a simple maths question? I often come back to that and realise we've been in this era for quite a while. Calculator would probably be 1000x more efficient!
superpope99 commented on Print GitHub Repositories as Books gitprint.me/... · Posted by u/der_gopher
why does it need access to my private repositories?
counterpoint - Sometimes I do this for myself to prompt myself into a reply when I'm finding it hard to compose the message. Once I've said something, no matter how small, I know I have to follow up within in a couple of minutes. It's like a kind of short-term Ulysses pact.
Also I'd say this depends on your existing work culture - I've been in places where the expectation is that everyone has Slack messages muted. If anything was really that time sensitive it's still possible to pick up the phone.
superpope99 commented on .less: Crafting .less Docker Containers That Will Blow Your Mind pointlesscode.dev/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
what is a .less Docker Container
Man do I have a brilliant youtube channel to point you at: https://www.youtube.com/@AngeTheGreat/videos
this is incredible - my mind is completely blown at the idea of synthesising audio using full blown fluid mechanics.
Seems like it now defaults to `ghcs` and `ghce` instead of `??`, `git?` and `explain`. It took me a while to figure that out.
indeed - and because it's a special character you need to do something like this to replicate the ?? shortcut.
alias \?\?="gh copilot suggest"
The fact that this isn't obvious, and that instead the means by which that product is delivered is considered more important than the actual arrival of passengers, is very telling.
This is a common issue in the technology world - too often, the actual end result is overlooked, for the sake of the means by which that product is produced. Your special organisational tricks mean nothing if the customer is left at the station, standing in the rain, hundreds of kilometres from home.
The timetable doesn't get anyone home. The trains do. The timetable just describes the intent - it is a requirement which describes a service, not a product. The train is required to show up at that time, and by publishing it the train company is establishing agreement with its customers in an open and fair manner.
A product is something which is produced, and the word 'product' describes, after the fact, that which was produced. A service is an act which is performed in support of producing something. Timetables are a service which are subservient to the fact of actually producing the desired result. I do not go to the train station to look at the services being promised delivery; I go to engage in the act of using that service, to gain my desired product: my ass at home, making a cuppa.
Disclaimer: if you've taken a train in any one of 38 different countries around the world, chances are your safety has been being predicted by SIL4-level online tests I've written for that purpose ..
Marketing guy Rory Sutherland talks about the product of the train journey a lot. I think there's a lot of wisdom in the idea of spending finite budget trying to make the travel experience more enjoyable rather than trying to make the journey quicker. (excuse the shortform slop) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bywe3NUOB1I